MERRY CHRISTMAS ALIVE!

hope to see all of you soon. especially since many who were abroad are now back.

midnight mass was magical last night.

one more day of rest and its back to hammering tomorrow.

- damien

newspeak

oooh! just to note: it's 10.43pm on finals night and i have a russian lit paper due tomorrow and i have spanish to memorise that i haven't started and i have ir and gods i'm so dead but anyways my russian lit paper is on doublespeak during the soviet era (which by the way is not the same as newspeak and was not coined by orwell but certainly owes influences to it) and i just wasted one hour of my life on texttwist (but i got a high score of 140,980 aha beat that so maybe not all so bad who am i kidding) andandand ooh isn't that interesting.

i am NOT freaking out.


AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH WHOAMITRYINGTOKID.

TAK CHI SIBEI KANA SAI

so yes, i have finals. and that is the name of a facebook group for people who run out of interesting expletives before running out of homework.

on the bright side, once this ends on monday i swear i'll head into ny or something. catch up with people, and all. and yeah, what do you guys want from the us of a?

i am back with more linguistic gems from the green service.

i have pondered over two more words. doublejob and paperplay. those who have read 1984 will notice how they seem to be words out of a Newspeak dictionary.

doublejob implies an action or set of actions that increase one's workload redundantly. the same outcome/output can be achieved through a subset of that action or set of actions alone. it must be noted that the solution to the problem is contained within the action or set of actions in the doublejob, just that it is mixed with needless excesses.

paperplay refers to the alteration of paper work to suit the situation. this can mean either backdating a document, or forging certain details to paint a picture prematurely, et cetera. it must be noted that paperplay is not forgery in the incriminating sense of the word. paperplay is done to give flexibility to situations, thereby cutting down the wastage of time and unnecessary burdens which are an unfortunate product of red tape.

- damien

quotable quote of the week by one of my instructors - "educated people like to use pen to kill people".

hey how about doing something after cher's dinner? or maybe even staying over somewhere? what do you guys think? we havent caught up as a group in ages... this idea came out of my conversation with leon a couple of days back.

- damien

:D hellloooo US

heys son!!..

with regards to what dame mentioned abt bush coming down to town.. there was a rather funny podcast from the mrbrown show and the link is here. jus click and it'll download.
hope you find it funny. mr brown's realli funny. lol

i have just ONE paper left. woohoo
and come thursday.. i shall be in your part of the world son. :]
how cold is it now?

haha dame.. ur entry looks like smth out of dicitonary.com.. lol..
you shld go and add it there. rofl

as promised.. the pics of the card that bishop matthias sent to us! :D


first: the envelope!!


second: the cover of the card!!
such nice cool design and pls note, it's not just a printed design. zoom in if needed.


third: the inside of the card!!
okay, it's a chop, not handwritten.. but hey.. more than enough for me.. that that thought to give us a card. :D

sorry the pics are a little out of the margin.
they can't be expanded.. so i thought might as well put put a bigger one and let you guys see more clearly.
flickr, which is realli quite wonderful in all other aspects, unfortunately does not have a size btw small and medium.
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i am slacking.
aunt brought me out for lunch.. and we walked arnd vivo city for abit.
and i've got so many friends who finish their papers today.. and i've still gotta hang on till wed. bleah.
dont feel like studying.
altho this paper coming up.. will prolly be the one that killls me. hah.

okay okay. off to try and continue mugging.
see you all at the dinner party hopefully! :)
[son.. leon said you'd b able to make it.. when are you coming back?]

love,
-cher

there are many distortions of english in the green service. but one of them i like and find to be useful - wake up your idea. for greater emphasis, one can also say wake up your f--king idea. i have no idea where it originated. from my limited command of dialect and mandarin i find no grammatical basis for that statement. nor is it to be found in english.

this statement can be used in a few ways -

1. to rouse a person to action, from inaction "wake up your idea! you only have 4 hours left till 'A' levels!" (now thats freaky)

2. to bring a person back to earth "wake up your idea! think i dont know you've been slacking?"

3. to correct a false idea "wake up your idea! two plus two is five not four!"

beautiful, isnt it?

- damien

hello sonia nothing much has happened in singapore. except maybe that bush came to singapore and they changed the time of the O and A level exams to accomodate the potential disruption to traffic flow.

its been two years since our first trip!

hope to see you guys at cher's dinner.

- damien

HELLO SINGAPORE ITS THE US CALLING WHAT'S GOING ONNNNNNN.